Blade

Generic Blade
Generic Blade
Group:	Melee Weapon
Tech Level	TL–3
Size	300.0 mm length
Weight	350.0 grams
Cost	Cr50
Ammo	None
Manufacturer	Various
Generic Blade

A Blade (350 grams; Cr50; TL-3) is a hybrid knife weapon.

• It is an edged and/or piercing melee weapon.
• This melee weapon may be employed as a thrown weapon.

Description (Specifications)

It has a heavy, flat two-edged blade nearly 300mm in length, and a semi-basket handguard. Because of the bulk of the hand guard, it is generally carried in a belt scabbard.

A blade can be a variety of smaller, edged weapons including the ubiquitous kitchen knife.

Weapon Characteristics

Length: 300mm. Weight: 350.0 grams. Base Price: Cr50.

History & Background (Dossier)

The earliest knives tend to fashioned from animal horns or bones should a world possess both a sophont and sophisticated animal life or equivalent creatures. Other sophonts construct knives from volcanic substances including obsidian. During the TL:1-3 epoch, sophonts generally transition from organic materials to various kinds of shaped and smelted metals.

Weapon Manufacture

The TL-3 blade represented in this AAB article is a relatively sophisticated knife forged by a blacksmith in a smithy of hard iron and perhaps even sophisticated alloys such as hardened steel. The TL-3 blade is not yet a factory manufactured item in the industrial sense. It is still hand forged.

Selected Blade Types

1. TL-3 Blade
2. TL-4 Kitchen Knife
3. TL-7 Survival Knife

References & contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Marc Miller. Characters and Combat (Game Designers Workshop, 1977), 42-43.Marc Miller, Robert Eaglestone, Don McKinney. Characters and Combat (Far Future Enterprises, 2019), 42-43.
• Marc Miller. The Traveller Book (Game Designers Workshop, 1982), TBD. (Text & illustrations)
• Imperial Encyclopedia
• Matthew Sprange. Core Rule Book (Mongoose Publishing, 2016), 117.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science